The Archive · 1934

Arctic Explorers at Aberdeen

London, Oct. 8.

Lieut, Martin Lindsay ' and his party of explorers who have carried fut the longest self-supporting sledge journey in the history of Arctic exploration, arrived at "Aberdeen from Greenland to-day.

Some 350 miles of hitherto unknown. territory have been mapped and extensive addition has been made to the knowledge of the Greenland lec cap. Three sledges travelled 1,160 miles west to east across Greenland over a most dificult county and the face of frequent severe storms, Some 450 miles of journey was made fon continuous ice.

The party was picked up at Angmagssalik by the British trawler Jacinth only four hours before the winter ice" closed the _harbour.—Wireless through Reuter.

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